counseling for cancer & illness.

a diagnosis can feel like an earthquake has shattered life as you know it.

In the face of life-altering illness, our most fundamental assumptions about health, security, and control are challenged in an instant. Ideas about what the future holds are suddenly called into question, forcing a reprioritization of everything. Your life—once familiar and routine becomes unrecognizable through the lens of uncertainty. Isolation moves in as you may come to realize that friends and family cannot begin to understand what you are experiencing. 

It is as if the ground has been ripped out from underneath of you. 

If you or a loved one is feeling lost in the midst of all of this, wondering what life is supposed to look like now, know that you don’t have to navigate this alone. Serious illness can impact you in ways that you may not anticipate, making this journey difficult to understand unless you have been through it. Having experienced ovarian cancer, chemotherapy, and multiple surgeries myself—along with supporting my spouse through his own cancer diagnosis—I am particularly aware of the emotional, physical, spiritual, and financial challenges associated with life-altering illness. 

My lived experience with cancer offers a depth of connection and empathy that comes from walking a similar path. With understanding and sensitivity, I will be your support through every part of the process, from the day of diagnosis all the way through to the end of treatment and whatever comes next.